Several companies announce unrelated expansions and new facilities

As part of a wave of recent expansions, Agilent Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) announced plans to extend its communications research organization by creating Agilent Laboratories Scotland (South Queensferry, Scotland). Meanwhile, DiCon Fiberoptics (Richmond, CA) is adding 50,000 sq ft of manufacturing space to its existing 93,000-sq ft facility and planning to develop a new 27-acre campus for component manufacturing. And Fujitsu (Tokyo, Japan) is establishing an optical networking research facility in Richardson, TX, and an engineering center for advanced communication products in Belfast, Northern Ireland.